We have found that there is a direct relationship between the amount of quality time Don and I are able to spend together and pizza quality. I think we’ll call our next pizza creation “Good Love”.

I was telling Shannon that y’all should make reservations for the boat trip on Crater Lake. The view from the rim is amazing, so I can only imagine that the view at water level is even more breathtaking.

Have fun and I have a feeling the next time I see Dillan he’ll be 6 foot 3. Gee whiz, when did he get so tall all of a sudden??? And give little button nose a big hug from me. I’m at home this week taking care of my mom after surgery, so I haven’t gotten my weekly Stella fix. She is such a little doll baby. You two are very blessed with two sweet, wonderful kids. Enjoy them all you can. Like I said, life’s too short to sacrifice the good stuff.

Amidst all of our stress and other ups and downs, we’ve been trying to do things as a family, too. We went camping a couple weeks ago and drove around Mt. St. Helens last weekend for my birthday. Next weekend, we’re going to hit Crater Lake. It’s all stuff we have to do to stay sane and remember why we’re in all this madness called business.

You and Don rock and we are proud to be friends with you, as well as being so close to your amazing restaurant! Take those Sundays off, because really, how good of a Pizza can Don make if he’s all down because he hasn’t had any quality time with you? I need assurance of pizza quality, damnit!

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It’s so interesting about the music particularly. Since we’ve been looking for musicians and bands, we’ve found so many GREAT local musicians that I’m amazed don’t have a record deal. But they’re also not very mainstream, whitebread, top pop 40, either. I don’t know what happened to the people who search out talent for the record companies. Is it a yes-man kind of thing…well, this type of artist is in right now, so let’s go find our version of them to go up against the competition?

I know the evolution of music is too kinetic and has too much life in it to succumb to this milktoast approach.

Agree completely on music, too. But you are preaching to the choir on that one… I can’t stand most mainstream music, especially cookie cutter top 40 junk!

On a similar and interesting note, we just watched a show on the Sundance channel called “Before the Music Dies” that talks about the changing face of the music industry due to the internet. Basically saying that people are fed up with the way the record companies have homogenized music, and that people don’t believe them when they say that a band is the next big thing, etc. People are going to myspace.com and other “underground” sources to find bands and musicians.

It all comes down to this…people are smarter than the media and other mass marketing sources give them credit for. The giants think they can sell ice to eskimos, and it’s just not the case. The people who are succeeding are those who are giving people credit for intelligence and the ability to discern good from bad.

Anyhow, the DVR has changed how we watch TV (and when) and I couldn’t live without it. It’s a work of pure genius!

In all seriousness, I think that’s a great idea…we’ll get it into our events schedule!